[Help] Not feeling worthy of the gods.

[lumineth Realm Lord]

Does anyone feel this way? How do you deal with it?

 

[Beyond Everything]

Never put another head higher than your own. You'll just be hobbling deep aspects of yourself with metaphysically dysfunctional programming. You'll also be opening yourself to exploitation by egregores and even some otherwise intimidating beings who are out there.

 

[Philomagus]

Cleansing, praying, fasting, in the case that this has something to do with one or more actions, words or habits.

Read Sallust. All gods are like the sun, and we obscure ourselves from hiding from them. Redemption and renewal is only thought as a christian theme, but the cases for Oedipus and Herakles in mythology, and the orphic, eleusinian and samotracian mysteries in cult are good examples for how this theme was important for polytheistic culture as it is nowadays for the regular christian. Read the myths of the passions and actions of the Gods as symbols by how certain divine influences (and everything emanates from the gods) can be mislead and mishandled by we mortals, because of our frailty, neediness and ignorance. So pray to Apollo, Dionysus and Zeus Katharsios for purification (or the correspondent gods of your pantheon). In case of shame, anxiety and just the feeling of generalized unworthiness, approach any God praying to surpass this feeling born out of ignorance, and read about the history of the cults of your Gods, read their myths interpreted by neoplatonic pagan theology, beginning by Sallust and reading also Iamblichus, Porphyry and Proclus.

 

[Robert Ramsay]

Does anyone feel this way? How do you deal with it?

You should be asking "Are the gods worthy of you?"
Respect has to go both ways, and you need to respect yourself first.
As they say in Zen, "If any Buddha stands in your way, cut him down with a sharp sword!'

 

[Morell]

This feeling is consequence of Abrahamic faiths (not sure about judaism) where you are taught that you need to qualify for heaven and escape hell. They constantly teach people what is making them not worthy and to be afraid of not being worthy, especially in cult-minded versions of these religions.

Though control of people appears across the globe in religions.

So how to cope with that? You need to remove that program from your brain, keep teaching yourself that it is nonsense till you start believing that it is nonsense because it is. You know the saying: Keep repeating lie long enough and it becomes the truth. (in minds of poeple)